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by spiderPig 8y ago
Agree, hard to distinguish people from ads these days
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by spiderPig 8y ago
You’ll see the same thing with Google. I’ve found quite a few Google shills on here
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by spiderPig 8y ago
Works for me, swipe left/right
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by spiderPig 8y ago
If anything this post is going to push people away from using Gitlab. It’s one thing to try and capitalize on it but this is just eww
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by spiderPig 8y ago
Yeah but GE isn’t in the business of collecting personal data about you and selling it. Google business is data not jet engines
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by spiderPig 8y ago
Think of it the other way, if Lockheed martin were to start a Gmail, GDocs equivalent tomorrow, would you use their services knowing how closely they work with the military? Would global users be comfortable using it? The whole PRISM fiasco
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by spiderPig 8y ago
That's crazy. Their net income is almost the same as Google's with 1/3rd the number of employees. I am surprised that they have 25k employees now, wow!
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by spiderPig 8y ago
Wow you're either a Google employee or huge fanboy. Every single one of your comments is pro-google/anti-apple.
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by spiderPig 9y ago
I would say Google is the new Microsoft of the 2000s now. From what I hear from friends, it’s very slow moving and filled with empire building leaders like Microsoft had. Amazon is really commendable in this aspect. Culture really does make
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by spiderPig 9y ago
Which makes me think of it would be prudent for the government or military to invest in this tech as well. Companies like Northrop Grumman while being bureaucratic nightmares, take safety pretty seriously.
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by spiderPig 9y ago
Ah TIL, with their factories being in Shenzhen, I thought they were HQ’ed there. This still doesn’t rule out government strong arming though.
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by spiderPig 9y ago
Sure, but they own the firmware now though
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by spiderPig 9y ago
It is a little disconcerting that Foxconn (subject to deep Chinese government overreach) will now own Linksys
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by spiderPig 9y ago
MSFT should go the other way of Google now and offer full data privacy guarantees(I guess they still have a big Bing Ads business though). That being said, It's scary how big these MegaCorps have gotten.
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by spiderPig 9y ago
Wow, so they've raised close to $1bn so far! Wonder how many of these delivery services like Doordash, Postmates, Grubhub, Caviar, Uber eats etc will survive the next economic downturn.
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by spiderPig 9y ago
No the seattle ones are burnt out ex-Amazon employees
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by spiderPig 9y ago
I wouldn't join any start-up involving Peter Thiel at this point. Palantir is another prime example. Biggest grifters in the valley, the paypal mafia
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by spiderPig 9y ago
Yes please, can we please get @boulos to tell us how GCP can be seemingly used to solve this architects problem here? AWS has clearly failed!
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by spiderPig 13y ago
Haha, exactly! I'm here at work sitting with a big grin on my face for the last few minutes..Unless Silkroad themselves are lying, which I think is very possible.
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by spiderPig 13y ago
Ah, I see your point. Basically, fragment the power of the existing population as much as possible by increasing heterogeneity within it. Seems like the only solution against this is an eventual educated population that despite it's cu
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by spiderPig 13y ago
Thanks for the detailed comment. But could you go into a bit more detail about how the elite actually benefit from factions within a large nation? Like with an example taking today's elite into account.
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by spiderPig 13y ago
That doesn't sound like a good habit to have in this industry, things change and software evolves. Android's first few versions sucked..a lot for instance. Heck, most the of the early versions of OSS suck. Are you saying there sho
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by spiderPig 13y ago
So are these the same thoughts the hacker community will have with Apple's iOS in the future (there'll inevitably be some missteps)? Or even OSX for that matter? I fail to see why in-principle the community that is so vocal about
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by spiderPig 13y ago
Ah just so they have access to the vast resources and become 1st party libraries. Mono is not known in most of the linux world and Microsoft support would be a significant boost. Businesses would also be hesitant to support it adopt it unle
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by spiderPig 13y ago
And I'm totally stoked to learn that Scott Guthrie has been promoted to take Satya's place. Both of you guys are awesome! Now when are you going to open up C#, CLR and buy Xamarin ;)?
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by spiderPig 13y ago
I heard Scott is already pretty high up in the ladder and reports to Satya today. I hope he takes over Satya's position and heads the Cloud and developer efforts though.
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by spiderPig 13y ago
My 2 cents would be: open up C# and the CLR. Buy Xamarin and work towards a ubiquitous platform.
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by spiderPig 13y ago
Haha, I noticed that too! Kind of a subtle smirk.
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by spiderPig 13y ago
This is very interesting and all but does it really belong here on HN (I know it may fit bill for "off-topic" guidelines)?
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by spiderPig 13y ago
Good move. Nipping it in the bud is better than dredging it along years and eventually 'writing it off' like a certain company.

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